diff --git a/man2/listxattr.2 b/man2/listxattr.2
index dd791f662..2503537db 100644
--- a/man2/listxattr.2
+++ b/man2/listxattr.2
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ is interrogated in place of
 .PP
 A single extended attribute
 .I name
-is a simple null-terminated string.
+is a null-terminated string.
 The name includes a namespace prefix; there may be several, disjoint
 namespaces associated with an individual inode.
 .PP
@@ -107,8 +107,8 @@ user.name1\\0system.name1\\0user.name2\\0
 .RE
 .fam T
 .P
-Filesystems like ext2, ext3 and XFS which implement POSIX ACLs using
-extended attributes, might return a
+Filesystems that implement POSIX ACLs using
+extended attributes might return a
 .I list
 like this:
 .fam C